This contribution offers an expansive definition of « results » to contribute to the discourse on reproducibility and transferability in Participatory Action Research. By questioning the criteriology in social sciences, we introduce a shift through action, drawing on insights from Institutional Analysis and feminist epistemologies. While research results are commonly defined as the knowledge produced and formalized by the researcher, these approaches allow us to question the autonomy of the scientific field relevance of the linear model of science. What we propose is to incorporate the transformation of the investigated situation into the evaluation of results. This necessitates considering evaluation from an epistemic community perspective and, in our case, in favor of social justice.

This contribution offers an expansive definition of « results » to contribute to the discourse on reproducibility and transferability in Participatory Action Research. By questioning the criteriology in social sciences, we introduce a shift through action, drawing on insights from Institutional Analysis and feminist epistemologies. While research results are commonly defined as the knowledge produced and formalized by the researcher, these approaches allow us to question the autonomy of the scientific field relevance of the linear model of science. What we propose is to incorporate the transformation of the investigated situation into the evaluation of results. This necessitates considering evaluation from an epistemic community perspective and, in our case, in favor of social justice.